{"id":2100,"date":"2020-01-17T09:20:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T14:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:20:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T14:20:25","slug":"beyond-the-spotlight-episode-3-dan-kesterke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/17\/beyond-the-spotlight-episode-3-dan-kesterke\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Spotlight &#8211; Episode 3: Dan Kesterke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beyond-the-Spotlight-EP-003-480x480-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2101 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beyond-the-Spotlight-EP-003-480x480-1-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beyond-the-Spotlight-EP-003-480x480-1-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beyond-the-Spotlight-EP-003-480x480-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beyond-the-Spotlight-EP-003-480x480-1-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beyond-the-Spotlight-EP-003-480x480-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Dan Kesterke is Director of Bands at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan. He\u2019s also a very busy freelance clinician, drummer, and percussionist, who plays in several cover bands of various genres, a jazz quartet, and he performs in numerous symphonic and pit orchestra settings throughout southeast Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>On a cold, windy Monday morning at the tail end of 2019, we sat down to discuss his background, his journey into the world of music, the ups and downs of gig life, inspiring students, and earning respect on the gig. Other things that popped up in the conversation: click tracks, LEGO\u00ae toys, and golf analogies. Bonus points if you can pick out the freight train in the background somewhere during the interview!<\/p>\n<p>Follow Dan on the web:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dankesterke.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.dankesterke.com\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dankesterkedrums\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dankesterkedrums<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dankesterke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dankesterke<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-2387525\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/754013\/2387525-ep-003-dan-kesterke-music-educator-freelance-percussionist.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-2387525&#038;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Or, listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcast, TuneIn, or wherever fine podcasts are streamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Kesterke is Director of Bands at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan. He\u2019s also a very busy freelance clinician, drummer, and percussionist, who plays in several cover bands of various genres, a jazz quartet, and he performs in numerous symphonic and pit orchestra settings throughout southeast Michigan. On a cold, windy Monday morning at the tail end of 2019,<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/17\/beyond-the-spotlight-episode-3-dan-kesterke\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beyond the Spotlight &#8211; Episode 3: Dan Kesterke<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,154],"tags":[8,159,155,158,23,120,157,128,156,34],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-music","category-theater","tag-band","tag-drummer","tag-education","tag-freelance","tag-music-2","tag-musician","tag-percussion","tag-pit-orchestra","tag-teacher","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}